Contributor’s Note: DONIKA KELLY will join poets Eve Williams, Matthew Klane and James Belflower at the first Just Buffalo Studio Series reading of the 2016-2017 season at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Just Buffalo Writing Center, 468 Washington St. (at Mohawk St.), 2nd floor. She is the author of the debut collection “Bestiary” (forthcoming in November from Graywolf Press), selected by Nikky Finney for 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and recently nominated for the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry. Last month, she joined the faculty of St. Bonaventure University as an assistant professor of English. This poem originally appeared in Nashville Review.